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Peer to peer messaging is a simple information dissemination platform that is supported by a protocol which is based on pairs of request/response PDUs (protocol data units, or packets) exchanged over OSI layer 4 (TCP session or X.25 SVC3) connections. PDUs are binary encoded for efficiency. Data exchange may be synchronous, where each... Continue Reading

Multicast routing is an effective way to communicate among multiple hosts in a network. It outperforms the basic broadcast strategy by sharing resources along general links, while sending information to a set of predefined multiple destinations concurrently. However, it is vulnerable to component failure in ad hoc network due to the lack... Continue Reading

This project lays emphasis on the contribution a computerized property management system in Enugu North Local Government Area and how the computer can be programmed to record property management system and computations so as to eliminate the abuse and fraudulent activities associated with manual methods of property management system. The... Continue Reading

This work describes the design and implementation of protocol scrubbers. Protocol scrubbers are transparent, active interposition mechanisms for explicitly removing network scans and attacks at various protocol layers. The transport scrubber supports downstream passive network-based intrusion detection systems by converting ambiguous... Continue Reading

The deployment of DNS Security (DNSSEC) can only succeed if there is an effective mechanism for DNS public key validation. This paper compares three potential approaches to DNS key validation. A tree based approach utilizes the existing structure of the DNS tree to form highly structured key signing rules. This makes following chains of... Continue Reading

We present Quiver, a system that coordinates service proxies placed at the edge of the Internet to serve distributed clients accessing a service involving mutable objects. Quiver enables these proxies to perform consistent accesses to shared objects by migrating the objects to proxies performing operations on those objects. These... Continue Reading

The video stream in an AVI file is nothing more than a sequence of bitmaps. This article is about extracting these bitmaps and re-building the stream, in order to hide a message in the video. Before reading this article, you should have read at least part one, Steganography - Hiding messages in the Noise of a Picture. This one uses the... Continue Reading

Many techniques for multicast authentication employ the principle of delayed key disclosure. These methods introduce delay in authentication, employ receiver-side buffers, and are susceptible to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Delayed key disclosure schemes have a binary concept of authentication and do not incorporate any notion of... Continue Reading

The Purpose of the study was to find out the extent to which Teachers are aware of Ghana Education Service policy banning corporal punishment and the reasons why corporal punishment persists in schools in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality. The study was a Cross-Sectional Survey, which used descriptive survey (structured questionnaire) to... Continue Reading

THE EFFECT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF PARENTS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS: A CASE OF FOUR SELECTED SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE KUMASI METROPOLIS ABSTRACT The study was conducted to determine the effects of parents‟ socio-economic status on students‟ academic performance in four selected public Senior High Schools in Kumasi... Continue Reading

INTRODUCTION Physics as a science subject in school is different from other non-science subjects in school curriculum in the sense that its lessons take place in laboratories where both students and teachers carry out experiments and practical demonstration. This approach of learning and teaching of physics makes it a practical subject. Practical... Continue Reading

Research and reviews are continually being carried out in order to discover cheaper and abundant plant sources of bioactive components which exhibit pharmacognostic and biochemical effects.... Continue Reading

With the rapid growth of Human Computer Interaction, more and more useful software are out to replace erroneous human efforts. The system is being proposed in this report aims to manage inventory in a computerized environment rather than manually in a glass dealing enterprise. It encompasses functionalities such as report generation,... Continue Reading

This research work investigated into the impact of ICT on student’s academic performance in computer studies: a case study of secondary schools in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. The study sample comprised of 100 students drawn from the 10 selected secondary schools based on random sampling technique. A... Continue Reading

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Schistosomiasis is a chronic human disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes or blood flukes. The schistosomes live i1n the blood vessels associated with the intestine and urinary bladd1er where they reproduce sexually. Schistosomiasis is one of the most wide spread parasitic disease that... Continue Reading

This study was carried out to investigate the nutritional value and the antibacterial activity of bitter kola, (Garcinia kola). The result of the proximate analysis shows that bitter kola contains 51.95% moisture, 5.55% Ash, 9.75% crude fibers, 4.65% crude fat, 7.35% crude protein and 20.85% carbohydrate. The anti-bacterial activity shows... Continue Reading

INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background of study Juice is a liquid that is naturally contained in fruit and vegetables. It can refer to liquid that are flavoured with these or other biological food resources such as a beverage or used as an ingredient or flavouring in food, (Lewis, 2002), fruit juice is produce by squeezing or crushing fruit. Many... Continue Reading

Gastro Intestinal Helminthiasis was investigated among primary school children in Ihengwu village, Oko between February and March 2015. Sixty samples of freshly collected faeces from sixty randomly selected primary school children between the age of four and ten years from two selected primary schools; Gaius Benton and Pope John primary... Continue Reading

This study was conducted to examine the fungi present in spoilt onion bulb. Five different sample of spoilt onion bulb were blended together and suspended in sterilized distilled water which was used to inoculate Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA). Four different fungi were isolated from the sample and the morphological characteristics shows... Continue Reading

The ectoparasitic infestation of free range domestic fowls were surveyed between August and November, 2014. A total of 105 ectoparasites belonging to four species of two genera were collected. These were made up of three lice and one ixodid tick. The percentage occurrence of these parasites are: Menacanthus stramineus (50.5%),... Continue Reading

Ex-convict can be defined as someone that uses to be in prison, someone that has being convicted for a particular crime. Online ex-convict file maintenance system is an online system developed to manage and maintain the records of an ex-convict individual. This software will enhance the proper and accurate, management and maintenance of... Continue Reading

Ludo (latin word “ludus” -'I play') is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi , but simpler. The game and its variants are popular in many countries and under various names.... Continue Reading

The end-of-course grades assigned by lecturers are intended to convey the level of achievement of each student in the class. These grades are used to make a multitude of decisions. Unless a sufficiently, accurate and efficient method is used for the grading, the grades are applied to convey misinformation and lead the decision- maker... Continue Reading

Poor market sanitation is a serious problem that has contributed to the spread of infectious diseases and environmental degradation in Nigeria. The study evaluated the level of awareness and practice of solid waste management and problem of waste disposal and management in Effurun market, a leading food stuff market in Uvwie LGA of Delta... Continue Reading